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Jesus Came To Do The Will Of The Father

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Jesus came to do the will of the Father.

“For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me. And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” –John 6:38-40

Here, Christian, find your hope: that the salvation for which you were so desperate is afforded, by God’s will, in the coming of the King, Jesus Christ. He is sent to complete the work that the Father had promised to Abraham, to Moses, to David. Even beyond enabling the salvation— and higher still, the adoption—of sinners, the advent of Christ is the fulfillment of God’s establishment of His eternal throne. As our Almighty God declares in Psalm 2:6, “I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” The Lord Jesus comes to die with the weight of the world’s sin upon His shoulders, and then to rise and reign forever. And He guarantees that if we look on Him and believe, our eternity is secure in His unending kingdom.

The great errand of Christ to the world is that for which none other may receive credit; and in turn, there are none with the power to undo that which He will accomplish. For He, Emmanuel, is sent to dwell with us, and then He bids us, weak and weary and burdened, to come to Him for eternal rest. And those who do come will never be cast out.

John 6:22-59 runs as the actualized parallel to its foreshadowing in Exodus 16, where in their journey through the wilderness, the people of Israel were given bread from heaven. God sends this bread to sustain them and demonstrate His glory and faithfulness. In John 6, Jesus says that He is the true Bread, sustaining the people of God in their journey toward eternity. As the Israelites ate of the manna from heaven until they reached Canaan, the promised land (Ex. 16:35), may we feast on Christ by the power of His Word until the last day is revealed.